Bottom Line:
Those changes produce significant effects in human and natural activities.Then, the obtained results are evaluated by means of a quality control analysis, as well as with complementary graphical representations.The suggested methodology has also been proved efficiently for identifying the change detection index with the higher contribution.

ABSTRACTLandcover is subject to continuous changes on a wide variety of temporal and spatial scales. Those changes produce significant effects in human and natural activities. Maintaining an updated spatial database with the occurred changes allows a better monitoring of the Earth's resources and management of the environment. Change detection (CD) techniques using images from different sensors, such as satellite imagery, aerial photographs, etc., have proven to be suitable and secure data sources from which updated information can be extracted efficiently, so that changes can also be inventoried and monitored. In this paper, a multisource CD methodology for multiresolution datasets is applied. First, different change indices are processed, then different thresholding algorithms for change/no_change are applied to these indices in order to better estimate the statistical parameters of these categories, finally the indices are integrated into a change detection multisource fusion process, which allows generating a single CD result from several combination of indices. This methodology has been applied to datasets with different spectral and spatial resolution properties. Then, the obtained results are evaluated by means of a quality control analysis, as well as with complementary graphical representations. The suggested methodology has also been proved efficiently for identifying the change detection index with the higher contribution.

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Furthermore, ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) plots have been used to represent the performance of the complete experiment carried out at each resolution (Figure 13), where the true positives and false negatives rates for each set of weighting factors combination are plotted in these spaces. The resulting curve and the area enclosed with the horizontal axis denote the reliability of the implementation of the conducted tests.

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Furthermore, ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) plots have been used to represent the performance of the complete experiment carried out at each resolution (Figure 13), where the true positives and false negatives rates for each set of weighting factors combination are plotted in these spaces. The resulting curve and the area enclosed with the horizontal axis denote the reliability of the implementation of the conducted tests.

Bottom Line:
Those changes produce significant effects in human and natural activities.Then, the obtained results are evaluated by means of a quality control analysis, as well as with complementary graphical representations.The suggested methodology has also been proved efficiently for identifying the change detection index with the higher contribution.

ABSTRACTLandcover is subject to continuous changes on a wide variety of temporal and spatial scales. Those changes produce significant effects in human and natural activities. Maintaining an updated spatial database with the occurred changes allows a better monitoring of the Earth's resources and management of the environment. Change detection (CD) techniques using images from different sensors, such as satellite imagery, aerial photographs, etc., have proven to be suitable and secure data sources from which updated information can be extracted efficiently, so that changes can also be inventoried and monitored. In this paper, a multisource CD methodology for multiresolution datasets is applied. First, different change indices are processed, then different thresholding algorithms for change/no_change are applied to these indices in order to better estimate the statistical parameters of these categories, finally the indices are integrated into a change detection multisource fusion process, which allows generating a single CD result from several combination of indices. This methodology has been applied to datasets with different spectral and spatial resolution properties. Then, the obtained results are evaluated by means of a quality control analysis, as well as with complementary graphical representations. The suggested methodology has also been proved efficiently for identifying the change detection index with the higher contribution.